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A shift from zonal to nodal pricing improves the efficiency of system operation. However, resulting price changes also shift surplus across generation and loads at different locations. As individual actors can lose, they might oppose any reform. We explore how allocation of financial...
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extending the typical analysis from the electricity sector to the industry sector, and by including the CO2 infrastructure level … with CO2 pipelines and storage. To this end, we use state-of-the-art models of the electricity sector (generation … investment and electricity grid models), the industry sector, as well as the CO2 infrastructure sector. This unique modelling …
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In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the … electricity market. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5 GW generation capacity as well as its extra-high voltage … network. We analyze the effect of these divestitures on wholesale electricity prices. Our identification strategy is based on …
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electricity sector, typically using constant elasticities of substitution between generation types. Detailed bottom-up electricity … models generally have embedded load duration curves with the electricity price determined by the marginal cost of generation …. This study incorporates a simple representation of electricity generation with these bottom-up features directly into the …
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Time series of electricity, petroleum products, and renewables are found to be highly correlated with total energy …
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This paper estimates the total effect of power outages on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1995–2007. We pay close attention both to potential errors of measurement of African economic growth and to the endogeneity of outages. As suggested by Henderson et al. (American...
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In recent years, Germany has significantly increased its share of electricity produced from renewable sources, which is … mainly due to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). The EEG substantially impacts the dynamics of intra-day electricity prices by …-day electricity prices and propose an estimation procedure for this model. Most importantly, our model is able to generate extreme …
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This paper examines the impact of ramping rate restrictions imposed on hydro operations to protect aquatic ecosystems. A dynamic optimization model of the profit maximizing decisions of a hydro operator is solved for various restrictions on water flow, using data for a representative hydro...
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This paper studies the impact of corporate ownership on residential net-of-tax electricity prices, when the ownership …-of-tax electricity prices in Western Europe. The impact of liberalisation on prices is smaller and more uncertain. …
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. This study finds systematic variations in liquidity in different segments of the Nordic electricity swap market and …-period-matched counterparts. In this context, I analyze the dynamic out-of-sample tracking performance of selected dirty hedges. Electricity swaps … with delivery in front year one and two, respectively, track electricity swaps with delivery in front year three quite well …
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